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More Than A Headline: Turkey In Review

By Noor Adilah (17S06B) It started with the 2015 Ankara bombing. Then the second bomb came. Today, counting from 2015, there have been a total of 13 major terror attacks that scar Turkey. Search the...

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Casting Out Dark Circles

By Andrew Hidajat (17S03I) On my very first morning in Singapore as a foreign student, I was dumbfounded by the appearance of the 6am sky. While the sun began to rise at home, here, it was still pitch...

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Withdrawal of “Cry Go Where” Article

We have withdrawn our recent article “Cry Go Where?” and would like to sincerely apologise for the distress that it may have caused. Our intention was never to trivialise the issue, but we accept that...

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A News Article

by Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) There’s a confession to be made about my GP lessons, beyond the usual regrets expressed after exams: I suspect my GP tutor is an ambassador of BBC News. Yours could be too. Or...

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Get Up On Your (Press) Soapbox!

by Noor Adilah (17S06B) While the word soapbox may carry negative connotations today, its origins are rooted in a history of public discourse from everyday people about issues that mattered to them....

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Arab Street Foodventures

by Noor Adilah (17S06B), Jeanne Tan (17A01B), Joan Ang (17A01B) Last week, three Press reviewers (henceforth labelled Stuffy Eater, Picky Eater and Iffy Eater) and some of their friends decided to go...

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Raffles Reviews – Comic Books / Graphic Novels

By Noor Adilah (17S06B) This article is part of a series of genre and format reviews done in collaboration with Raffles Reviews, an Instagram page by Raffles Debate. Click here for more beautiful...

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Saving the S.League: Confessions of a Tampines Rovers Fan

by Ernest Lee (17A01A) DISCLAIMER: I support Crystal Palace Football Club. Call me plastic. The first time I really enjoyed a local game was May 10, 2016. Tampines Rovers played Selangor in an Asian...

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Outliers of the Singapore Story

by Noor Adilah (17S06B), with guest writer Samira Hassan (17S05A) We all know what the Singapore story is about. We are clear about the concepts it stands  for: the buzzwords of modernity, progress,...

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Sayang, Sayang: Singapore Writers Festival 2016

By Joan Ang (17A01B) It is an oft-repeated declaration that Singapore does not have many arts events — and that those it has are largely inaccessible to the layman, being held by an “inner circle” of...

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Tips Needed – Singapore’s Busking Culture

Lee Yun Ning (17A01E) Amidst our hectic school schedules, you may have heard faint tunes drifting from the canteen during your breaks. Your first thought might be that the canteen speakers are actually...

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It’s a Whitewashing Matter

By Jeanne Tan (17A01B) So Doctor Strange hit theatres this week, and while my family was among those who have had the pleasure of viewing it, I decided to give it a miss (great movie fan as I am)....

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Riot! at the Diet

By Gan Chin Lin (17A01B) Images by Gan Chin Lin “I despair of the term ‘clean eating,’ though I actually like the food that comes under that banner. [‘Clean eating’] necessarily implies that any other...

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Achtung! – 20th German Film Festival 2016

By Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) As a student taking German as a foreign language, my friends have taunted me with an endless series of wurst jokes for the past five years. Occasionally, learning the language...

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Where to Find: A Raffles Players J1 Production

By Yang Siqi (17A01C) and Nerissa Loe (17A13A). Photos by: Raffles Photographers. 3 4 5 11. Colourful chalked words all around the school’s hotspots revealed the dates of the Players’ latest...

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Blackface: The Burden of the Brutalised

by Sabariesh Ilankathir (17A13A) As many may have heard, Mediacorp’s streaming service, Toggle, recently released a controversial episode of “I want to be a Star”. The show itself is about calefares,...

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In Defence of Trashlit

By Catherine Zou (17A01B) At the start of the year, I resolved, somewhat fruitlessly, to “expand my understanding and knowledge of the world”. With this vague banner of self-improvement came the...

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Marha, Marha! Middle East Film Festival!

by Noor Adilah (17S06B) A woman drives a car down a Saudi Arabian street wearing a fake moustache, donning men’s clothes. 20 people on opposite sides of a brutal protest spend hours trapped together...

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Advofeste – Actualising Our Abstractions

by Noor Adilah (17S06B) This article is a preview of Raffles Community Advocates’ upcoming event Advofeste which will take place at Yusof Ishak Block from 2.00pm – 6.00pm. Interested participants may...

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Birds of Raffles

By Anonymous Writer Photos by Adriel Tan (17S06C) Raffles can have a surprisingly diverse range of birds, which can be found in a couple of hot spots. The School track, being in close proximity to...

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